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To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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Sometimes I will spend two or three days not speaking to anyone outside of the immediate family when they come home, and then I find that I've been emailing like fury. Once you give in to that silence, it's quite nice.
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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.
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I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.
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I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.
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When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.
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For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.
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There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.
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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice for the phone, and a different voice if you're talking in bed. When you're starting off with a narrator, it's interesting to think, where is their voice coming from, what part of their brain?
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I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.
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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.
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If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.
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I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find.
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